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Researchers discover unusual organ preservation in fossil fishes from Brazil.

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Researchers discover unusual organ preservation in fossil fishes from Brazil. According to new research, fossils found in Brazil suggest that the evolutionary history of ray-finned fish brains was more complicated than previously thought. The discovery of well-preserved brains in late Paleozoic ray-finned fishes was made by Brazilian doctoral student Rodrigo Tinoco Figueroa and colleagues. They … Read more

It took 2 years for researchers in deep caves below the surface to uncover this remarkable fossil.

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The surface to uncover this remarkable fossil. complete darkness. ice waterfalls, muddy passageways, and crushing squeezes. Spiders and bats. leaping off ledges and into the uncharted. For a fossil, how far would you go? We reached our limits—and then some—during a two-year retrieval mission that lasted nearly sixty hours in a cave beneath the surface. … Read more